What do I need to use Context Switch Budget?

A real week's calendar; The work's kinds; The movable vs. fixed; The interrupt sources.

Is Context Switch Budget free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Context Switch Budget

Q: How do I know the Context Switch Budget output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: The census counted a real week, including sub-30-minute gaps as losses; Every recurring work-kind has a batch destination; Defrag moves are specific reschedules, not aspirations; Interrupt classes route somewhere legitimate.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-19 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-cowork

Treat context switches as the budget line they are — the switch census (how fragmented the week really is), the batching moves that consolidate scattered same-kind work, the calendar defrag that turns Swiss cheese into slabs, and the switch-cost line for saying no. Use when asked my day is fragmented to death, count my context switches, batch my meetings and reviews, or defend against calendar Swiss cheese. Produces the fragmentation census, the batching plan, the defrag moves, and the protective phrases.

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What to give it

▸A real week's calendar — last week, as it actually ran (including the unscheduled interruptions the user remembers); the census works on evidence

▸The work's kinds — what recurs: meetings, reviews, writing, admin, comms; batching needs the categories named

▸The movable vs. fixed — which meetings the user controls or can counter-propose ([recurring-meeting-pruner](../recurring-meeting-pruner/SKILL.md) verdicts feed this), and the team's collaboration-hours constraints

▸The interrupt sources — what punches through ad hoc (chat, drive-bys, "quick calls") — each gets a batching destination or a boundary

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓The census counted a real week, including sub-30-minute gaps as losses

✓Every recurring work-kind has a batch destination

✓Defrag moves are specific reschedules, not aspirations

✓Interrupt classes route somewhere legitimate

✓The re-census is scheduled to verify the shape held

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not read gap-time as free time — confetti isn't paper you can write on

Do not fight interrupts individually — route classes; case-by-case is whack-a-mole with your attention

Do not accept meeting times passively — the counter-offer wins by default because nobody else is playing

Do not batch into your peak hours — corridors go on the energy map's shoulders; peaks are for slabs

Do not defrag once — calendars re-fragment on schedule; the re-census is the maintenance

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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